Aron, I took my first university biology class last week. The first lecture was on what science is, it’s purpose, and the actual difference between a theory and a law. The entire time, I was sitting there grinning like an idiot because I was saying in my head “Aron Ra already explained that to me” for almost every sentence. Thank you for opening my mind out of my world of creationist delusion and into the world of our beautiful reality through science. I’m indebted to you sir.
@@pansepot1490 Precisely. I have never felt more free than I do when I allow myself to think critically about the world around me instead of following blind doctrine and faith.
@@sawyerwright7910 It is far superior to have questions you can't answer than to have answers you can't question. Good luck and study hard! And quit smiling all the time.
It’s a bit sad that they had to dedicate an hour of important teaching time (I’m assuming it was an hour) to something which should be already have been taught in high school! That said, I’m very pleased for you, and I wish you every success!
I used to be a young earth creationist a year ago, now I accept Evolution as a proven fact , the evidence for evolution is beyond overwhelming. thank you Aron for pulling me out of the creationist Pseudoscience and introducing me to Real science . You re a living legend and a force of Reason ! 💪🏻
Knowledge is power Sadly those that believe that they know it all, can't (or refuse to) learn anything new regardless of the evidence presented. Congrats on stepping out of that type of thinking (it is what holds our world back from advancement). No matter how intelligent we are, it is Only when we begin learning, do we truly realize how much we have yet to learn. Keep studying👍😎
I’m a senior at a Christian school in Texas and I have to say, Aron, you saved me more than Jesus ever could. I’m forced into an apologetics class this year and the amount of bullshit spewed by out teacher is laughable. Even our physics and economics textbooks preach to us.
This is so encouraging, not the apologetics class or the bullshit, but the fact there are people like you who are bombarded by it daily and still keep their head above water.
To put in my pennyworth...I am a soil scientist who worked for three and a half years on the National Soil Map Project in the Kingdom of Jordan. We collected detailed soil profile descriptions in about 100,000 locations all across the country (about 25,000 of which were done by me) from the Syrian border to the north, Iraqi border to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied lands to the west. In all that work the evidence of a flood having once covered the land was zero, absolutely none! You would think that if there had been even a regional flood covering just the biblical lands you would find evidence in Jordan, but there is none. Plenty of evidence supporting other things, such as a greater extent of milder conditions with slightly heavier rainfall in biblical times, but no flood. So if you want it from me, who has actually been there and looked in enormous detail, no flood not even in the heart of the Middle East. And inevitably the apologist also goes back to catastrophism to squash a huge time scale into the supposed biblical timescale of 6,000 years or so, it all had to happen in one huge event. Again no, there is ample evidence that it all happened slowly over millions of years. Catastrophism was thrown out by geomorphologists 130-150 years ago as it was a theory that had zero merit and zero evidence.
@@thelordjesus1136 That says everything, doesn’t it? Why Jesus followers so easily and fully embrace MAGA cultism, QAnon conspiracy theories, and effectively serve as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.When you belong to a religion that tells you to dismiss logic and reason in favor of faith and obedience, it’s not that big of a leap for worshipers to accept a difference kind of mythology. When you’re taught from a young age to avoid challenging authority and told to keep critical questions to yourself (or to “just have faith”), why would anyone be surprised when you fall for the flimsiest of conspiracies? Because they’ve chosen their ego above everything else and any threat to that is unacceptable. It always boils down to them stroking their own ego.
@@thelordjesus1136 Okay cult member. If anyone thinks the Bible is the "word of God" and not ancient authors speaking for their imaginary god, they need to read the below article from a critical Biblical scholar and spend some time reading the other articles on his website. "So for example, when we read carefully what Yahweh says in the book of Leviticus, namely that the Aaronids (the sons of Aaron only), are high priests contrary to the Levites, that they alone are Yahweh’s mediators and the Levites are reduced to mere ministers of the Aaronids, that only through sacrifice can one atone for sins and not confession as preached by the Levites, or more precisely the Levite’s Yahweh, etc., *it can be no coincidence that in these laws and commandments,* ***which are placed on the mouth of Yahweh,*** *that Yahweh himself is presented advocating and legitimating the very views and beliefs of the specific priestly guild writing the text, and, contrary to the views and beliefs of their rivals, the Levites and the Levite’s Yahweh!* We will examine this more closely when we get to the contradictions in these books. But in short, this was the function of ancient literature, and we are allowing these ancient texts to speak for themselves. *In this particular case, the Levites and Aaronids wrote specific texts that each advocated their religious beliefs, views, and their position as high priests* ***by writing these sentiments directly into the mouth of their god!*** But just studying the Bible alone, scientifically, affords us the occasion *to see that many of these so-called words of Yahweh are* ***actually the very words of the texts’ authors.*** When we see numerous texts employing this ancient literary technique, and moreover, ***presenting Yahweh as the spokesperson for their own views and agenda,*** *and* ***contrary*** *to Yahweh’s other words in other texts written by other authors employing the same technique,* how can one conclude otherwise. In other words, when in the composite text that we now call the Bible we find: Yahweh declaring that only Aaronids can officiate as his priests and Yahweh declaring that all Levites can officiate as high priest; Yahweh declaring that sin is atoned through confession and Yahweh declaring that sin is only expiated through the sacrificial cult, no exceptions; Yahweh declaring that he gave laws and commandments at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that he only gave the Ten Commandments at Sinai; Yahweh commanding to exterminate all the Canaanites without pity and Yahweh declaring to tolerate them and live in their midst; Yahweh declaring that the wilderness generation were disloyal and rebellious and Yahweh declaring that they were a paradigm of loyalty and faith; Yahweh declaring that he may be offered sacrifices at any altar and Yahweh declaring that there is only one altar where sacrifices are to be offered up; Yahweh declaring that the people saw him at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that they only heard his voice; Yahweh declaring that circumcision is an eternal covenant and keeping the land depends on observing this very commandment and Yahweh declaring the Mosaic laws as the covenant and keeping the land is dependent on keeping these laws; Yahweh declaring that he dwells in the midst of the people and Yahweh declaring that he only resides in heaven; Yahweh commanding Passover to be celebrated by all at Jerusalem and Yahweh commanding it to be celebrated at each person’s home; Yahweh commanding that animals for consumption must be ritually sacrificed and Yahweh commanding that they don’t have to be sacrificed ritually, etc. ***one must conclude that Yahweh is being used by these authors, each with their own contrary views and beliefs as a spokesperson for each of these authors’ agendas.*** These are all the personal, and competing, views, theological beliefs, and religious systems of our biblical authors. And this is only the tip of the iceberg." *"Studying the Bible"* - Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
@@thevulture5750 If you want to take on the ENTIRE MODEL then you will have to present ENTIRE EVIDENCE! Your one-liner presents none. As a basis, the geological model assumes that geological processes occur at more or less the same rate today as they did in the past, a not unreasonable argument. Much of Jordan is underlain by shallow sea deposits such as limestone formed by the accumulation of the shells of sea creatures - a slow steady rain of shells falling to the sea floor as creatures die. This accords well with observations of this process as it happens now and can be seen actually taking place. To accumulate the thickness of limestone observed would take millions of years and accords with the model of the Tethys Sea having once been over much of what is now the Mediterranean and north Africa. The Tethys sea was a long time ago, a flood within the timeframe of human existence would be much more recent and confined to superficial deposits, such as those that form the present-day soils. The are no widespread flood deposits in the superficial layers in Jordan - end of. The model stands up to scrutiny, and the more you look the better it stands, unlike any biblical 'model'.
@佐藤謙二 your word salad makes no sense. Ancient humans had a limited understanding of the world. Science increases knowledge by studying reality, it never stops, science will continue to improve, correct itself and increase knowledge as we move forward. And really, i personally don’t give a flying F if your “beliefs” are crushed because we know better today, and we certainly do know more, we clearly improved our way of life and we will even improve more in the future (unless we go back to the dark ages of religion….)
It's only outstanding in the sense of how little it takes... most of this stuff is debunked by a fairly basic understanding of modern science. Which is probably why organizations like this exist, to come up with more convoluted scientific excuses for how all those animals could fit on and survive on an impossibly huge wooden boat.
@@Marconius6 yes. It is unfortunate that episodes like this had to even be produced nowadays when basic science is accessible to most. And yet, for every stupid lie these creationist put out there, it takes a great effort to put together the evidence and facts against it.
@佐藤謙二 “stop trying to destroy other people’s cultures”, that’s why I asked what cultures you are referring to. What “cultures” are being destroyed by showing how science works in reality? Aron’s (and collaborators) video only demonstrates how reality, facts about earth and scientific data work against the myth of Noah’s flood. Hear me out please: if ancient peoples believed this it wasn’t because they were stupid. They believed this because that was the only way they were able explain something. They couldn’t have known what we know today (and for the most part it was understood as a tale, as.a myth). Our problem is that religious people of TODAY teach and believe this nonsense. We have a problem with their anti-science position that spreads obvious blatant nonsense. The ancient myths are cool to learn and study, but spreading them as truth today is not only ignorance but also dangerous. If you believe Noah’s flood to be true, please, go ahead. We are showing you that science does not support it.
@@davidabdollahi7906 and you say that but there is a theory that Noah's flood was actually a flood that happened on the Iraqi floodplain. And you don't have to be near a body of water to be flooded.
I find the modern "flood geology" arguments fascinating because I am just old enough to remember when fundamentalist we're railing against plate tectonics (followed its acceptance in science). It's interesting to watch them accept just enough of the actual scientific evidence that they can feel open minded and evidence-based, yet so little as to be forced to change their claims massively in the last several decades despite them - purportedly - being based upon the unchanging word of a perfect god.
Haha that's amazing! I'm sure you remember as well when UPC codes were introduced and some Christians railed against it and said it was the mark of the beast.
@@Thornspyre81 That started a bit before my time, but I do remember the tail end of it. I can't keep up with what's supposed to be the mark of the beast these days!
I cannot remember fundamentalists railing against plate tectonics, but it took a while before it was fully accepted in science. What I do remember how the role of DNA sequencing in constructing evolutionary trees was ridiculed, which before that depended fully on interpretation of fossils. The fossils ( or lack or them) gave the scientists the believe that humans and great apes split early from teach other and when DNA showed that the split between humans and chimps came after that of gorilla's and orangutans the room wasn't large enough. And this was among scientists. Science changes with new evidence giving new insights, but quite a few scientists who have their reputation at stake tend to cling to old insights disliking change as much as fundamentalist dislike change of underwear.
Same with evolution. They deny evolution but then they need to use ultra fast evolution to explain how Noah could fit the millions of species of living animals in his boat. He loaded a pair of each “kind” of animal and they evolved in different species later.
I WONDER IF KENT BOVINE WOULD DEBATE HIM WITH BOTH BRAIN LOBES TIED BEHIND HIS BACK? HE SURE ASSUMES HE HOLDS MORE 'REAL' SCIENCE THAN ANY LIVING HUMAN. AHH, THE ARROGANCE OF STUPIDITY.
So, not only did the Egyptians miss the global flood going on over their heads, they also missed how the stars rapidly moved to their new spots in the sky at a given time due to the continental drift, and they didn't note all that new info down on their papyri? And it wasn't just them, there were also the Mayans, the Babylonians and the Chinese. They were pretty darn good astronomers.
Guess they were just too shocked. I mean how often does it happen that there's suddenly so much water that the continents not only move at supersonic speeds but the entire surface of earth vaporises as a result of the released energy, but somehow your entire nation is unharmed? I'd need a year to recover from that as well. The stars being in a new position hardly seems worth worrying about. They're still there at least.
@@TheShootist True, they started developing societies several centuries after the supposed flood, and their civilization became prominent around a millenium later, so we can take them off the list.
@@adamboyen4727 True, they would be more than cataclysmic, yet the people that experienced them failed to note the event on their papers or include it in their oral traditions.
I really appreciate that Aron goes the extra step to point out that a global flood is _precluded_ by much evidence. (I realize he has a whole series on that, and I love that, too. I re-watch it periodically because it has so much useful information in it.) It's just that so much counter-apologetics rests on "there's no evidence that..." instead of going that necessary step to "we know for a fact that didn't happen, and here's the evidence that proves it didn't." It's great to have some people on the front lines doing justice to the facts. Thanks, Aron, again.
"Make thee an ark of gopher wood" (Gen. 6. 14). The ark (Teba, something "hollowed out." See Fuerst’s Heb. Lex., in voce) seems to have indicated a part of a circle, and was often represented by the crescent moon. It doubtless typified the winter portion of the year. The material - gopher wood, an evergreen, emblem of winter - out of which it was made, likewise favors this idea. As the year was made up of three seasons, so the ark' consisted of three stories - "lower, second and third." The one window was "above" = the canopy of heaven. The single door (entrance) was in its side = the fall equinox. The gopher wood, says Gesenius, was "pitchwood” (Lex., p. 201). This makes a nice blazing fire, affording both light and heat - the very thing for a savage people in winter. From its abundant heat, and the season in which it was used, this kind of fire doubtless came to be styled Hell- fire, i.e., winter fire; hell being the old high German for hole - the hole or cave in which the Sun seems to sojourn during the winter months.
Great video, Aron. As usual you are dispelling the force of darkness, which is ignorance. Ignorance is curable, by education. Thank you so much for helping in that area! 👏👏👏🌌
@@freddan6fly Well, wilful ignorance is a hard nut to crack.... as Aron says, it's not just what you don't know, but what you won't know 🤔. Good comment....👏
32:25 I was living in a coastal city in Japan where there are archeological remains of settlement from the Jomon era and one of the things they had on display was a cross-section of sediment showing tsunami deposition and maps showing what areas the related tsunamis covered. Interestingly, there was no tsunami roughly 4,500 years ago that covered all the land shown.
Good content, and I’m happy to see David joining, He’s a clear thinker. It’s always great to see these good minds realize that there is value in this sort of content.
No one wants to confront the fact that their religion is false...It's one of the hardest things to come to terms with. Most would rather find justifications and rationalisations...or just "Faith".
17:20 Oh no... It took me a second to realize it, but the AIG video implies that the continents are sliding away from each other THROUGH the oceanic crust. That's why they talk about rivers leaving a connected trail of mud from one side of the Atlantic to the other - they think it's like a snail leaving behind a mucus trail as it travels over ground. The whole point of plate tectonics is that NEW crust is being formed in the mid-Atlantic as the seafloor spreads, so there's no way in hell there could ever be a mud trail connecting the continents. The misunderstanding is mind-boggling.
I've sent this video to the apologist channel Redefine Living. Let's see if they respond. Usually they either ignore me or send abusive messages...or they respond to questions by asking a question instead of giving an answer. My favourite question, to which I never get a response is..."Why did your so called loving god kill my innocent ten week old granddaughter?" This never gets a response from any of the Apologetics channels. But I'll keep asking it.
Sorry to hear about your granddaughter. I have a similar question... why did your 'loving god' make my daughter autistic, with a permanent seizure focus in her brain, limit her mobility, deny her the capacity to speak, read and write, among many other abilities? I never get an answer. They don't want to face reality, even on the most obvious subjects. 😒
@@jeanettecook1088 Thank you Jeanette for your kind words, and my thoughts and best wishes go to you and your daughter ❤️. Apologetics never have answers and that's why they only use selective quotes from their book. They neglect the many quotes from the book that advocate Infanticide and the murder of pregnant women. They are all inherent liars.
@@Doctor.T.46 It's definitely tragic when stuff like that happens. You might not believe God exist, but I'm a believer and I'd say your granddaughter continues on in heaven with Jesus who was given up by his father then conquered death so that we may have a future through him. If you ask for evidence Doctor T then I could see about providing information and things we've discovered that for me at least seems to verify that the Bible is more than just some ancient texts written down by primative people.
Thank you for all of your hard work, Aaron. Your years of dedication and numerous videos have taught me how to rationally respond to irrational claims and statements, as well as how to approach claims of the paranormal with a rationally skeptic mind. Do not dismiss an idea or claim outright, but rather examine the evidence in detail and test it until either it fails or holds up. I have also learned how to identify fallacious arguments, leading arguments, and good arguments as well. I have also learned that being wrong is not bad when seeking the truth, and admitting when you are wrong is not a weakness but an opportunity for growth and learning
24:00 This is good about the lack of global flood deposits which date to the same time. To reinforce this, we *do* find global deposits from major volcanic events which show ash deposits over large parts of the Earth, all dating to the same time. So, indeed, it is possible for a global event to leave evidence of this kind behind, as shown by volcanic events. That no such evidence is then found for a global flood tells us all we need to know about Noah's flood.
Creationists, you're just embarrassing yourselves. A word of advice. Just stick with "god moves in mysterious ways", it's vague and difficult to disprove. When you start cherry picking and misrepresenting science to try to defend the bible you just look silly and dishonest.
@@MrCanis4 I’m pretty sure most or even all Christian fundamentalists subscribe to some form of creationism. And those groups may be relatively small compared to the mainstream denominations, but are still pretty widespread globally.
Let's talk Koalas! They are native to Australia and I am pretty certain they haven't found any fossils of them in the middle east. They are tree dwelling animals and as such they are not built for walking long distances. It would probably take them around 7 to 8 years to walk from Australia to the middle east provided: 1. The land bridge between Australia and Asia existed then, 2. There was a trail of Eucalyptus gum trees along the route (also native to Australia), their only source of food and 3. There are no predators on route. Then they would have to walk back! This would be way past their life span, let alone their reproductive span. In short the Koalas and all the other native animals in Australia would have missed the boat and been wiped out in that global flood.
@@Goldenhawk583 don't forget panda's also those guys don't even want to mate on their own much less travel to a desert region away from there only food source
One of my favourite quotes about religion is that people weren't stupid enough to believe everything in their myths were literally true; it was, to them, in many ways the same kind of thing Marvel and DC and the Lord of the Rings are to us - entertainment, which also teaches morality. Sad how many conmen and grifters exploit those old stories to ensnare people desperate for meaning and purpose.
I'm going to be vulnerable here. I've watched you Aron for years now and as a result have found a treasure trove of folks whom I've come to respect. Besides yourself: Cosmic Skeptic, Genetically Modified Skeptic, Matt Dillahunty, Hemant Mehta, Telltale Atheist and of course, Paulogia. I have immense respect for all of you and have to say that as someone who grew up in church was was so indoctrinated into it all, I've been really having some issues with it all. I'm a theist, I think? I honestly don't even know anymore. It's hard for me to rationalize everything I've been taught when you all do such a damn fine job of shining a light onto EVERYTHING, even stuff I didn't know existed or was never taught or when I would ask, was told to focus on things through the lens of Christ. Hard to understand the story of Lot and his daughters having sex to extract his seed through the lens of Christ, though I digress.. I'd love to say more, so much more - I'm not the typical theist that is typically the subject of all these videos and conversations. Frankly, I'm appalled by what I hear come from the mouths of these folks. I'd love to chat more, but the comment section of TH-cam isn't the place. I guess most if not all of you have been in this stage, the questions, the loneliness, searching for folks who can understand and sympathize with you. When you grow up knowing nothing else, it can be hard to unplug. My journey started long ago when I somehow found myself listening to Hitchens, that's where I began. I then found Aaron and well, here I am. Thank you all for what you do, I'm so appreciative of you all.
Hi Zachery. Like you, I grew up in church, too. I remember that stage of my life. The loneliness, depression and anger I felt because I realized that what I believed was a lie. It took me a couple months to tell my wife as she was and still is Christian. She wasn't thrilled when I told her, but she still loves me, even to this day. And I her. She helped me get counseling and now I'm doing better than before. I learned you're never alone so long as you have family and friends who love you.
I have most of those names on my radar too. Except Hemant. I unfollowed him recently because he was obsessed with lying about dawkins and refused to correct himself, doing exactly what he accuses theists of doing all the time.
It's beyond pathetic how religious authorities keep struggling to make their fairytale relevant. By reinterpreting their story, and clumsily wrapping it in a veneer of "science," they seem to think reality itself will bend to their will.
Thanks for another great video! Unfortunately, if science were to advance enough to build time machines, we could let all young earth creationists explore all of time, and literally see that there was no great flood, and most of them would continue to believe the lie, and say there was something wrong with the time machine.
I think someone came up with a speculation that, if you built a time machine, then you'd only be able to travel from the point back to when it first is turned on. You are already going forward in time, making going back further impossible, but the Time Machine would create a "marker" from which you can come back to. Each time it comes back, it removes itself from the timeline, creating a new timeline. From this point onwards, Time becomes irrelevant going forward.
The fact that these people willfully teach these lies to children makes my blood boil! Young Earth Creationism is truly the greatest threat to organised religion as an institution, little to do they realise how they are ensuring the death-nell of the religion they espouse as the truth.
The money in in the lies, not truth. Most people cannot accept death as the final state. They go to church to be lied to. Truth would set them free and this is not what they will accept.
GD, AronRa, you continue to surprise and inspire me with the depth and strength your integrity, and intelligence. I love that "treat the material seriously"...as "myth"; the admonishment of the intellectual abuses of the radical faith cult of Historic Literalism fundamentalism.
In the next one, remember the design parameters that would have the thing capsizing constantly with no roll stability; no modern keel means it would have splintered in sea state 2 due to length, keeping in mind the story would require the shortest steepest seas ever.
Hearing these Professionally Produced Apologetic Programmes, leaves me astounded. In this day and age, I find it disturbing to note that people could possibly still believe this tripe. And yet they do. Very sad indeed. Thank goodness for Aron's responses. We all have our own little foibles that may seem odd to others, but come on, believing in a Mythological Flood is just plain daft. To my ears, they may as well be discussing who shot first in the wholly book of The Star Wars. It is just as pointless.
"The Epic of Gil Gamesh. So, Mr. Gamesh, how did you deal with that flood?" LOL! I never heard anyone ever pronounce Gilgamesh like it was a first and last name!
Aron, I sincerely and truly appreciate just how thoroughly you go after these ignorance mills I know I say it repeatedly, but it is meant with veracity and true respect, thank you so very much for what you have done, what you are doing, what you will do and will continue to do also As well as who you are, you are sincere, genuine and a staunch adversary of lies and that is both relevant and necessary in today's sphere of available information Your presentations, orations and rebuttals are remarkable, you say what is needed with little effort it seems, because you are so equipped for such tasks You're simply a marvel in these times and we need people like you to fight back against such utter nonsense
Aron, as much as I love the science, your having to continuously refute such creationist rubbish is beyond tiring. I am watching the decline of intelligence in the US ( with legislative changes and anti science) with increasing worry but do consider that often before a significant leap forward can happen in knowledge or culture, such pain is often present. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for your videos Aron, they’re great. I like Professor Dave’s videos too, he’s fun to listen to. We appreciate all of the time it takes to put these videos together.
@@littleredpony6868 with god anything goes... If god commands it friction can remove heat or the breath of god can remove it... Point of these arguments is god why not used magic heart attacks... why god must destroy everything?
I hope that this is relevant. John R. Rice and Bob Jones, Sr. were popular southern fundamentalist evangelists during the period between the world wars. They were close friends and saw eye to eye on every theological point but one. That is, when God wrote the Bible did he do it by putting the words in the man's mind as he wrote, or did he forgo the mind and just moved the writer's hand? Their disagreement turned into a feud and the two men broke fellowship (as they say) for good, even though they lived to be very old men. So, basically even the most fundamentalist of fundamentalists could not agree on the method of inspiration. Yes, that is the founder of Bob Jones University.
Just wanted to say I appreciate and look forward to your vids. I see now that some religious people lie to themselves and others unconsciously or not. I seek the truth and that's why I love science and intelligent reasoning. 👍
But . . . it is a disc!!! Held up by 4 elephants (Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen) who stand upon the shell of Great A'Tuin the turtle who swims throughout the cosmos. De Chelonian Mobile!
On the 'Death Pose', you left out the interpretation from L. Ron Hubbard, in his explanation that this is evidence of the events in OTIII, that it was nuclear blasts that knocked the dinosaurs heads back when they turned to see what all the noise was. ;-)
Oh, now I understand - Noah and everyone & everything else lived on Pangea, penguins and pangolins, Pandas & Pumas, &c, &c, so now the whole Flood story is made believable and veridical. Thanks for clearing that up.
I watch these videos to enjoy Aron destroy these fools but I always go away knowing more than I did before. I didnt know America was riding on an old tectonic plate, that's fascinating
The Flood would destroy the Ark "No because God protected it" So if God needed to use magic to do that, them why he dont use magic to just make all people disappear? For a supposed all powerful God, he sure dont use the most efficient way to do things.
Not only to protect the Ark. God would have needed so much Magic to make this all happen and resolve all the inconsistencies and plotholes, a literal Thanos-Snap would be "easier" and more believable
To be fair, the Ark Experience is just a boat-shaped facade on one side of a standard concrete and steel building. I remember hearing that they originally intended it as a full-scale model to prove that a literal reading of Genesis would result in a believable structure, but they had to abandon that plan when they found any building following that approach would be unfit for human habitation by Kansas Health and Safety Laws. Small wonder that their compromise only barely clears the bar and succumbs to some less than catastrophic Kansas weather. Will the Ark Experience people conclude that God is reproving them for their hubris? No, of course they won't.
Sky daddy would have to use his magic for so many things concerning a global flood, creating the amount of water (and later vanish it again into space...), help Noah build a wooden boat impossible even by todays standards without any iron supports, make it seaworthy, teleporting every animal into the ark (shrinking them, too, to fit), put said animals into hibernation so they don't produce any waste or consume food, especially not consuming other animals, warp the whole earth during said flood to make every trace of it vanish, after that, making the flooded earth habitable again, bring back every pair of animals to their former place, take care of the genetic bottleneck this would create, take care of the enormous breeding speed a repopulation would need, treat the descendants of Noah the same way so they can fill the earth with humans again, bring most of them to every spot of every ancient civilization previously killed by the flood, wipe their memory so they don't remember they came from the middle east, but remember all the customs of said civilizations and rebuild their living environment as if no flood ever happened... AND THAT IS ONLY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE concerning the ark itself...
No one seems to wonder if all the people alive then, drowned with all of the dinosaurs, where are their skeletons? Not one has been found in any layer that contains dinosaur fossils. How do creationists explain this?
The whole 'but it's not meant to be taken literally' excuse some Christians come up with is amusing, seeing as there's a hardcore large group of Christians who believe Genesis is literal history. Can't have it both ways. And even if we do take Noah's Flood as just a story, why is the rest of Genesis any more factual? Why wouldn't it all be made up by some ancient fiction writer who had no idea about cosmology, meteorology, biology, geography, etc? He sat down one day and wrote a line about boom, god made the heavens and the Earth. Done! Brilliant writing there. One then logically starts to wonder what other parts were written as basically god fan fiction, by men trying to assert their dominance over one another by declaring 'god told me I'm special, now hand over this land!'
My favorite one was that a friend of mine's wife's friend was giving me whole "you can't understand it unless you believe". So reading English is dependent on a god belief? She got really pissed when I started quoting the bible verses about women needing to shut up, not teach a man, and all that crap "they are your rules not mine". I never understood how someone could have their god call them a piece of shit and still worship that god. The bible says that a woman (even your wife) is as low as your slave. I'm not cool with that, maybe if I was into BDSM I would be *lol*. It ties in with your "it can't be taken literally" and in the same breath taking shit literally. The cognitive dissidence you need to go through to hold not just contradictory ideas but ones that create a mental paradox.
When you are in school, if you fail every test then you do not graduate. But when you are out of school you can make a good living by promoting theories that fail every test.
I think the most damning, ignorant statement of the genesis speaker was invoking evolution while talking about geology, demostrating a complete lack of understanding for both.
How come apologists claim a science book is lying whilst citing inadequately or incorrectly what a certain passage actually says? And how come they claim their holy book is telling the truth whilst citing inadequately or incorrectly what a certain passage actually says?
The ridiculousness of a mud trail to the rifts, would ALSO have to ignore the fact that erosional and transportation/depositional processes occur on the coasts of oceans. Hydraulic action, abrasion and corrasion, attrition and solution, constantly change the coastal deposits, sometimes even making them "initially" unrecognizable.
I'm convinced the 'robotic teen voice' is a real human. The intonation and sporadic bursts of snarky superiority just sound too real to be text to speech.
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Aron, I took my first university biology class last week. The first lecture was on what science is, it’s purpose, and the actual difference between a theory and a law. The entire time, I was sitting there grinning like an idiot because I was saying in my head “Aron Ra already explained that to me” for almost every sentence. Thank you for opening my mind out of my world of creationist delusion and into the world of our beautiful reality through science. I’m indebted to you sir.
Good for you!!! :)
Aron doing god’s work! Leading lost souls away from error and back to the light of facts and science. ;)
@@pansepot1490 Precisely. I have never felt more free than I do when I allow myself to think critically about the world around me instead of following blind doctrine and faith.
@@sawyerwright7910 It is far superior to have questions you can't answer than to have answers you can't question. Good luck and study hard! And quit smiling all the time.
It’s a bit sad that they had to dedicate an hour of important teaching time (I’m assuming it was an hour) to something which should be already have been taught in high school!
That said, I’m very pleased for you, and I wish you every success!
I used to be a young earth creationist a year ago, now I accept Evolution as a proven fact , the evidence for evolution is beyond overwhelming. thank you Aron for pulling me out of the creationist Pseudoscience and introducing me to Real science . You re a living legend and a force of Reason ! 💪🏻
@佐藤謙二 WTF are you even talking about, kid.
Why? Did Darwin claim to be some kind of lord? For that matter, what makes you think Vikinganpg is in need of a savior of any kind?
@佐藤謙二 🤣 Yes, Darwin was the messiah of science, and Dawkins is the Science Pope
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@佐藤謙二 No, recites the facts like he's rehearsed them, because he's scripting and editing these videos.
Knowledge is power
Sadly those that believe that they know it all, can't (or refuse to) learn anything new regardless of the evidence presented.
Congrats on stepping out of that type of thinking (it is what holds our world back from advancement).
No matter how intelligent we are, it is
Only when we begin learning, do we truly realize how much we have yet to learn.
Keep studying👍😎
I’m a senior at a Christian school in Texas and I have to say, Aron, you saved me more than Jesus ever could. I’m forced into an apologetics class this year and the amount of bullshit spewed by out teacher is laughable. Even our physics and economics textbooks preach to us.
You can debunk all their bullshit with one free book on the net. See Hebrew Mythology or Science of the Bible, by Milton Woolley.
This is so encouraging, not the apologetics class or the bullshit, but the fact there are people like you who are bombarded by it daily and still keep their head above water.
You're not alone, same thing happened to me. This is why government, education and religion should not mix.
@@jeanettecook1088 …..th-cam.com/video/xXsc25QSIdE/w-d-xo.html…1minute…keep thinking❣️. ….🏴😊
@soldier of God That isn't possible because myths and sky daddies aren't real.
To put in my pennyworth...I am a soil scientist who worked for three and a half years on the National Soil Map Project in the Kingdom of Jordan. We collected detailed soil profile descriptions in about 100,000 locations all across the country (about 25,000 of which were done by me) from the Syrian border to the north, Iraqi border to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied lands to the west. In all that work the evidence of a flood having once covered the land was zero, absolutely none! You would think that if there had been even a regional flood covering just the biblical lands you would find evidence in Jordan, but there is none. Plenty of evidence supporting other things, such as a greater extent of milder conditions with slightly heavier rainfall in biblical times, but no flood. So if you want it from me, who has actually been there and looked in enormous detail, no flood not even in the heart of the Middle East.
And inevitably the apologist also goes back to catastrophism to squash a huge time scale into the supposed biblical timescale of 6,000 years or so, it all had to happen in one huge event. Again no, there is ample evidence that it all happened slowly over millions of years. Catastrophism was thrown out by geomorphologists 130-150 years ago as it was a theory that had zero merit and zero evidence.
@@thelordjesus1136 That says everything, doesn’t it? Why Jesus followers so easily and fully embrace MAGA cultism, QAnon conspiracy theories, and effectively serve as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.When you belong to a religion that tells you to dismiss logic and reason in favor of faith and obedience, it’s not that big of a leap for worshipers to accept a difference kind of mythology. When you’re taught from a young age to avoid challenging authority and told to keep critical questions to yourself (or to “just have faith”), why would anyone be surprised when you fall for the flimsiest of conspiracies? Because they’ve chosen their ego above everything else and any threat to that is unacceptable. It always boils down to them stroking their own ego.
@@thevulture5750
"What if" is not an argument of merit.
@@thelordjesus1136 Okay cult member.
If anyone thinks the Bible is the "word of God" and not ancient authors speaking for their imaginary god, they need to read the below article from a critical Biblical scholar and spend some time reading the other articles on his website.
"So for example, when we read carefully what Yahweh says in the book of Leviticus, namely that the Aaronids (the sons of Aaron only), are high priests contrary to the Levites, that they alone are Yahweh’s mediators and the Levites are reduced to mere ministers of the Aaronids, that only through sacrifice can one atone for sins and not confession as preached by the Levites, or more precisely the Levite’s Yahweh, etc., *it can be no coincidence that in these laws and commandments,* ***which are placed on the mouth of Yahweh,*** *that Yahweh himself is presented advocating and legitimating the very views and beliefs of the specific priestly guild writing the text, and, contrary to the views and beliefs of their rivals, the Levites and the Levite’s Yahweh!* We will examine this more closely when we get to the contradictions in these books. But in short, this was the function of ancient literature, and we are allowing these ancient texts to speak for themselves. *In this particular case, the Levites and Aaronids wrote specific texts that each advocated their religious beliefs, views, and their position as high priests* ***by writing these sentiments directly into the mouth of their god!***
But just studying the Bible alone, scientifically, affords us the occasion *to see that many of these so-called words of Yahweh are* ***actually the very words of the texts’ authors.*** When we see numerous texts employing this ancient literary technique, and moreover, ***presenting Yahweh as the spokesperson for their own views and agenda,*** *and* ***contrary*** *to Yahweh’s other words in other texts written by other authors employing the same technique,* how can one conclude otherwise.
In other words, when in the composite text that we now call the Bible we find: Yahweh declaring that only Aaronids can officiate as his priests and Yahweh declaring that all Levites can officiate as high priest; Yahweh declaring that sin is atoned through confession and Yahweh declaring that sin is only expiated through the sacrificial cult, no exceptions; Yahweh declaring that he gave laws and commandments at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that he only gave the Ten Commandments at Sinai; Yahweh commanding to exterminate all the Canaanites without pity and Yahweh declaring to tolerate them and live in their midst; Yahweh declaring that the wilderness generation were disloyal and rebellious and Yahweh declaring that they were a paradigm of loyalty and faith; Yahweh declaring that he may be offered sacrifices at any altar and Yahweh declaring that there is only one altar where sacrifices are to be offered up; Yahweh declaring that the people saw him at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that they only heard his voice; Yahweh declaring that circumcision is an eternal covenant and keeping the land depends on observing this very commandment and Yahweh declaring the Mosaic laws as the covenant and keeping the land is dependent on keeping these laws; Yahweh declaring that he dwells in the midst of the people and Yahweh declaring that he only resides in heaven; Yahweh commanding Passover to be celebrated by all at Jerusalem and Yahweh commanding it to be celebrated at each person’s home; Yahweh commanding that animals for consumption must be ritually sacrificed and Yahweh commanding that they don’t have to be sacrificed ritually, etc. ***one must conclude that Yahweh is being used by these authors, each with their own contrary views and beliefs as a spokesperson for each of these authors’ agendas.*** These are all the personal, and competing, views, theological beliefs, and religious systems of our biblical authors. And this is only the tip of the iceberg."
*"Studying the Bible"* - Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
@@thevulture5750 If you want to take on the ENTIRE MODEL then you will have to present ENTIRE EVIDENCE! Your one-liner presents none. As a basis, the geological model assumes that geological processes occur at more or less the same rate today as they did in the past, a not unreasonable argument. Much of Jordan is underlain by shallow sea deposits such as limestone formed by the accumulation of the shells of sea creatures - a slow steady rain of shells falling to the sea floor as creatures die. This accords well with observations of this process as it happens now and can be seen actually taking place. To accumulate the thickness of limestone observed would take millions of years and accords with the model of the Tethys Sea having once been over much of what is now the Mediterranean and north Africa. The Tethys sea was a long time ago, a flood within the timeframe of human existence would be much more recent and confined to superficial deposits, such as those that form the present-day soils. The are no widespread flood deposits in the superficial layers in Jordan - end of. The model stands up to scrutiny, and the more you look the better it stands, unlike any biblical 'model'.
@@thelordjesus1136 please provide evidence of this claim.
The amount of science and education that takes to correct that false “creation science” is outstanding. Thank you for taking this painful job Aron!
@佐藤謙二 your word salad makes no sense. Ancient humans had a limited understanding of the world. Science increases knowledge by studying reality, it never stops, science will continue to improve, correct itself and increase knowledge as we move forward. And really, i personally don’t give a flying F if your “beliefs” are crushed because we know better today, and we certainly do know more, we clearly improved our way of life and we will even improve more in the future (unless we go back to the dark ages of religion….)
It's only outstanding in the sense of how little it takes... most of this stuff is debunked by a fairly basic understanding of modern science. Which is probably why organizations like this exist, to come up with more convoluted scientific excuses for how all those animals could fit on and survive on an impossibly huge wooden boat.
@@Marconius6 yes. It is unfortunate that episodes like this had to even be produced nowadays when basic science is accessible to most. And yet, for every stupid lie these creationist put out there, it takes a great effort to put together the evidence and facts against it.
@佐藤謙二 what culture??
@佐藤謙二 “stop trying to destroy other people’s cultures”, that’s why I asked what cultures you are referring to. What “cultures” are being destroyed by showing how science works in reality? Aron’s (and collaborators) video only demonstrates how reality, facts about earth and scientific data work against the myth of Noah’s flood. Hear me out please: if ancient peoples believed this it wasn’t because they were stupid. They believed this because that was the only way they were able explain something. They couldn’t have known what we know today (and for the most part it was understood as a tale, as.a myth). Our problem is that religious people of TODAY teach and believe this nonsense. We have a problem with their anti-science position that spreads obvious blatant nonsense. The ancient myths are cool to learn and study, but spreading them as truth today is not only ignorance but also dangerous. If you believe Noah’s flood to be true, please, go ahead. We are showing you that science does not support it.
This tag team method of debunking the myths being pushed as truth is absolutely poetic!
Yeah and who would think that flood legends and myths have the tendency to pop it in places that's prone to flooding😱
Except for Japan, where that shait happens so often, that it just isn't funny anymore.
Really?!?!
I'm shocked...
God must hate my town. He's flooded it so many times. It washed out the bridge again last month. Someone must have forgot to pay their tithing.
The middle east is the last place on earth a flood could happen
@@davidabdollahi7906 and you say that but there is a theory that Noah's flood was actually a flood that happened on the Iraqi floodplain. And you don't have to be near a body of water to be flooded.
I find the modern "flood geology" arguments fascinating because I am just old enough to remember when fundamentalist we're railing against plate tectonics (followed its acceptance in science).
It's interesting to watch them accept just enough of the actual scientific evidence that they can feel open minded and evidence-based, yet so little as to be forced to change their claims massively in the last several decades despite them - purportedly - being based upon the unchanging word of a perfect god.
Haha that's amazing! I'm sure you remember as well when UPC codes were introduced and some Christians railed against it and said it was the mark of the beast.
@@Thornspyre81 That started a bit before my time, but I do remember the tail end of it. I can't keep up with what's supposed to be the mark of the beast these days!
I cannot remember fundamentalists railing against plate tectonics, but it took a while before it was fully accepted in science. What I do remember how the role of DNA sequencing in constructing evolutionary trees was ridiculed, which before that depended fully on interpretation of fossils. The fossils ( or lack or them) gave the scientists the believe that humans and great apes split early from teach other and when DNA showed that the split between humans and chimps came after that of gorilla's and orangutans the room wasn't large enough. And this was among scientists. Science changes with new evidence giving new insights, but quite a few scientists who have their reputation at stake tend to cling to old insights disliking change as much as fundamentalist dislike change of underwear.
Same with evolution. They deny evolution but then they need to use ultra fast evolution to explain how Noah could fit the millions of species of living animals in his boat. He loaded a pair of each “kind” of animal and they evolved in different species later.
@@Thornspyre81 They said the same about RFID chips.
This was a good one. I loved the scientific tag team. Thanks to David for his new guest appearance.
I WONDER IF KENT BOVINE WOULD DEBATE HIM WITH BOTH BRAIN LOBES TIED BEHIND HIS BACK?
HE SURE ASSUMES HE HOLDS MORE 'REAL' SCIENCE THAN ANY LIVING HUMAN.
AHH, THE ARROGANCE OF STUPIDITY.
So, not only did the Egyptians miss the global flood going on over their heads, they also missed how the stars rapidly moved to their new spots in the sky at a given time due to the continental drift, and they didn't note all that new info down on their papyri? And it wasn't just them, there were also the Mayans, the Babylonians and the Chinese. They were pretty darn good astronomers.
Guess they were just too shocked. I mean how often does it happen that there's suddenly so much water that the continents not only move at supersonic speeds but the entire surface of earth vaporises as a result of the released energy, but somehow your entire nation is unharmed? I'd need a year to recover from that as well. The stars being in a new position hardly seems worth worrying about. They're still there at least.
no. not the mayans. there was no mesoamerican civilization c.2000BC. Even the Olmecs were still 800-1200 years in the future.
@@TheShootist True, they started developing societies several centuries after the supposed flood, and their civilization became prominent around a millenium later, so we can take them off the list.
Your also missing the earthquakes that would occur due to the friction and rapid deceleration of the tectonic plates, there goes the pyramids lol
@@adamboyen4727 True, they would be more than cataclysmic, yet the people that experienced them failed to note the event on their papers or include it in their oral traditions.
I really appreciate that Aron goes the extra step to point out that a global flood is _precluded_ by much evidence. (I realize he has a whole series on that, and I love that, too. I re-watch it periodically because it has so much useful information in it.) It's just that so much counter-apologetics rests on "there's no evidence that..." instead of going that necessary step to "we know for a fact that didn't happen, and here's the evidence that proves it didn't." It's great to have some people on the front lines doing justice to the facts. Thanks, Aron, again.
"Make thee an ark of gopher wood" (Gen. 6. 14). The ark (Teba, something "hollowed out." See Fuerst’s Heb. Lex., in voce) seems to have indicated a part of a circle, and was often represented by the crescent moon. It doubtless typified the winter portion of the year. The material - gopher wood, an evergreen, emblem of winter - out of which it was made, likewise favors this idea. As the year was made up of three seasons, so the ark' consisted of three stories - "lower, second and third." The one window was "above" = the canopy of heaven. The single door (entrance) was in its side = the fall equinox. The gopher wood, says Gesenius, was "pitchwood” (Lex., p. 201). This makes a nice blazing fire, affording both light and heat - the very thing for a savage people in winter. From its abundant heat, and the season in which it was used, this kind of fire doubtless came to be styled Hell- fire, i.e., winter fire; hell being the old high German for hole - the hole or cave in which the Sun seems to sojourn during the winter months.
Great video, Aron. As usual you are dispelling the force of darkness, which is ignorance. Ignorance is curable, by education. Thank you so much for helping in that area! 👏👏👏🌌
What if it is wilful ignorance? Then I don't think it is curable.
@@freddan6fly Well, wilful ignorance is a hard nut to crack.... as Aron says, it's not just what you don't know, but what you won't know 🤔. Good comment....👏
@@jeanettecook1088 Excellent.
Nothing like a new video from Aron Ra to start the day.
32:25 I was living in a coastal city in Japan where there are archeological remains of settlement from the Jomon era and one of the things they had on display was a cross-section of sediment showing tsunami deposition and maps showing what areas the related tsunamis covered.
Interestingly, there was no tsunami roughly 4,500 years ago that covered all the land shown.
Nah. It's a forgery made by evolutionist gotcha - creationists
Good content, and I’m happy to see David joining, He’s a clear thinker. It’s always great to see these good minds realize that there is value in this sort of content.
So the invisible sky wizard designs the Earth with a fatal design flaw sort of like that one movie that had that Death Star thing in it.
Star Wars?
"that one movie with the Death Star thing in it"
Cultural barbarian.
@@WilbertLek culturally primitive if I dare say
The bible god is the champion of planned obsolescence.
Well, the OT God is pretty similar to an extra stupid Palpatine...
i love listening to professional geologists, the history of the planet uncovered by geological science is amazing
No one wants to confront the fact that their religion is false...It's one of the hardest things to come to terms with. Most would rather find justifications and rationalisations...or just "Faith".
17:20 Oh no... It took me a second to realize it, but the AIG video implies that the continents are sliding away from each other THROUGH the oceanic crust. That's why they talk about rivers leaving a connected trail of mud from one side of the Atlantic to the other - they think it's like a snail leaving behind a mucus trail as it travels over ground. The whole point of plate tectonics is that NEW crust is being formed in the mid-Atlantic as the seafloor spreads, so there's no way in hell there could ever be a mud trail connecting the continents. The misunderstanding is mind-boggling.
Sounds like something Roger of Mudfossil University would think up.
@@mattm8870 is that the guy yapping about fossilised teddy bears?
@@snapperjessen Nope it the guy who sees massive dead animals on maps.
Stunning content (well, I'm not stunned by the findings , lifelong atheist) but I am again impressed.
I've sent this video to the apologist channel Redefine Living. Let's see if they respond. Usually they either ignore me or send abusive messages...or they respond to questions by asking a question instead of giving an answer. My favourite question, to which I never get a response is..."Why did your so called loving god kill my innocent ten week old granddaughter?" This never gets a response from any of the Apologetics channels. But I'll keep asking it.
Sorry to hear about your granddaughter.
I have a similar question... why did your 'loving god' make my daughter autistic, with a permanent seizure focus in her brain, limit her mobility, deny her the capacity to speak, read and write, among many other abilities? I never get an answer. They don't want to face reality, even on the most obvious subjects. 😒
@@jeanettecook1088 Thank you Jeanette for your kind words, and my thoughts and best wishes go to you and your daughter ❤️. Apologetics never have answers and that's why they only use selective quotes from their book. They neglect the many quotes from the book that advocate Infanticide and the murder of pregnant women. They are all inherent liars.
@@Doctor.T.46 sorry for your loss ♥️.
@@Mayan_88694 Thank you my friend. That means a lot.
@@Doctor.T.46
It's definitely tragic when stuff like that happens.
You might not believe God exist, but I'm a believer and I'd say your granddaughter continues on in heaven with Jesus who was given up by his father then conquered death so that we may have a future through him.
If you ask for evidence Doctor T then I could see about providing information and things we've discovered that for me at least seems to verify that the Bible is more than just some ancient texts written down by primative people.
"Incredible nonsense" - perfect description for creationism! 👍
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Thank you for all of your hard work, Aaron. Your years of dedication and numerous videos have taught me how to rationally respond to irrational claims and statements, as well as how to approach claims of the paranormal with a rationally skeptic mind. Do not dismiss an idea or claim outright, but rather examine the evidence in detail and test it until either it fails or holds up. I have also learned how to identify fallacious arguments, leading arguments, and good arguments as well. I have also learned that being wrong is not bad when seeking the truth, and admitting when you are wrong is not a weakness but an opportunity for growth and learning
24:00 This is good about the lack of global flood deposits which date to the same time.
To reinforce this, we *do* find global deposits from major volcanic events which show ash deposits over large parts of the Earth, all dating to the same time. So, indeed, it is possible for a global event to leave evidence of this kind behind, as shown by volcanic events. That no such evidence is then found for a global flood tells us all we need to know about Noah's flood.
Creationists, you're just embarrassing yourselves.
A word of advice. Just stick with "god moves in mysterious ways", it's vague and difficult to disprove.
When you start cherry picking and misrepresenting science to try to defend the bible you just look silly and dishonest.
Are there any creationists outside the US? Honest question.
@@MrCanis4 Some radical Muslims and some small Christian inspired cults. There’s also a small group in India.
@@MrCanis4 Ken Ham is from Australia but yeah he’s living in the US now💰💸
@@MrCanis4 Sadly yes. At least in my home country of Greece there are.
@@MrCanis4 I’m pretty sure most or even all Christian fundamentalists subscribe to some form of creationism. And those groups may be relatively small compared to the mainstream denominations, but are still pretty widespread globally.
This was such an epic episode Aron! Kudos 👏
Let's talk Koalas! They are native to Australia and I am pretty certain they haven't found any fossils of them in the middle east. They are tree dwelling animals and as such they are not built for walking long distances. It would probably take them around 7 to 8 years to walk from Australia to the middle east provided:
1. The land bridge between Australia and Asia existed then,
2. There was a trail of Eucalyptus gum trees along the route (also native to Australia), their only source of food and
3. There are no predators on route.
Then they would have to walk back! This would be way past their life span, let alone their reproductive span.
In short the Koalas and all the other native animals in Australia would have missed the boat and been wiped out in that global flood.
not to mention.. the koala is known to be not very smart.. it would never have crossed their minds to start walking in the first place:D
@@Goldenhawk583 don't forget panda's also those guys don't even want to mate on their own much less travel to a desert region away from there only food source
@@cyanmage1 lol, true:)
One of my favourite quotes about religion is that people weren't stupid enough to believe everything in their myths were literally true; it was, to them, in many ways the same kind of thing Marvel and DC and the Lord of the Rings are to us - entertainment, which also teaches morality.
Sad how many conmen and grifters exploit those old stories to ensnare people desperate for meaning and purpose.
Please don't ever stop making videos. I love your channel
I'm going to be vulnerable here. I've watched you Aron for years now and as a result have found a treasure trove of folks whom I've come to respect. Besides yourself: Cosmic Skeptic, Genetically Modified Skeptic, Matt Dillahunty, Hemant Mehta, Telltale Atheist and of course, Paulogia. I have immense respect for all of you and have to say that as someone who grew up in church was was so indoctrinated into it all, I've been really having some issues with it all. I'm a theist, I think? I honestly don't even know anymore. It's hard for me to rationalize everything I've been taught when you all do such a damn fine job of shining a light onto EVERYTHING, even stuff I didn't know existed or was never taught or when I would ask, was told to focus on things through the lens of Christ. Hard to understand the story of Lot and his daughters having sex to extract his seed through the lens of Christ, though I digress.. I'd love to say more, so much more - I'm not the typical theist that is typically the subject of all these videos and conversations. Frankly, I'm appalled by what I hear come from the mouths of these folks. I'd love to chat more, but the comment section of TH-cam isn't the place. I guess most if not all of you have been in this stage, the questions, the loneliness, searching for folks who can understand and sympathize with you. When you grow up knowing nothing else, it can be hard to unplug. My journey started long ago when I somehow found myself listening to Hitchens, that's where I began. I then found Aaron and well, here I am. Thank you all for what you do, I'm so appreciative of you all.
Hi Zachery. Like you, I grew up in church, too. I remember that stage of my life. The loneliness, depression and anger I felt because I realized that what I believed was a lie. It took me a couple months to tell my wife as she was and still is Christian. She wasn't thrilled when I told her, but she still loves me, even to this day. And I her. She helped me get counseling and now I'm doing better than before. I learned you're never alone so long as you have family and friends who love you.
I have most of those names on my radar too. Except Hemant. I unfollowed him recently because he was obsessed with lying about dawkins and refused to correct himself, doing exactly what he accuses theists of doing all the time.
Such a beautiful series. Society is in your debt, good sir. Thank you.
Pillars!? Just shows this ancient Discworld was too cheap to spring for the elephants and turtle...🤣
Aron is a Giant of wisdom and knowledge. He is incredibly smart and intelligent. One of the smartest people on the planet!
Aron is an intelligent man, no doubt of that. But his real strength lies in his ability to articulate his knowledge, to pass it along to others.
It's beyond pathetic how religious authorities keep struggling to make their fairytale relevant. By reinterpreting their story, and clumsily wrapping it in a veneer of "science," they seem to think reality itself will bend to their will.
relevant*
@@zemorph42 thanks for catching that.
Thanks for another great video! Unfortunately, if science were to advance enough to build time machines, we could let all young earth creationists explore all of time, and literally see that there was no great flood, and most of them would continue to believe the lie, and say there was something wrong with the time machine.
Yes. And flat earthers are about the same, I bet that you could take them into space only to hear them holler PERSPECTIVE!!! CGI!!!
@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib "It doesn't REALLY mean THAT!
I think someone came up with a speculation that, if you built a time machine, then you'd only be able to travel from the point back to when it first is turned on. You are already going forward in time, making going back further impossible, but the Time Machine would create a "marker" from which you can come back to. Each time it comes back, it removes itself from the timeline, creating a new timeline. From this point onwards, Time becomes irrelevant going forward.
@@AngelEmfrbl I demand a better time machine! 🙂
Aron's Disproving The Flood series/playlist is a certified, atheist hood classic
The fact that these people willfully teach these lies to children makes my blood boil! Young Earth Creationism is truly the greatest threat to organised religion as an institution, little to do they realise how they are ensuring the death-nell of the religion they espouse as the truth.
The money in in the lies, not truth. Most people cannot accept death as the final state. They go to church to be lied to. Truth would set them free and this is not what they will accept.
Always a good feeling to wake up and see a new AronRa video. Keep up the good work sir!
GD, AronRa, you continue to surprise and inspire me with the depth and strength your integrity, and intelligence.
I love that "treat the material seriously"...as "myth"; the admonishment of the intellectual abuses of the radical faith cult of Historic Literalism fundamentalism.
Really enjoying listening to Mr. David. Hope he has time to contribute more to your mission on this podcast. Great stuff 🤓
In the next one, remember the design parameters that would have the thing capsizing constantly with no roll stability; no modern keel means it would have splintered in sea state 2 due to length, keeping in mind the story would require the shortest steepest seas ever.
05:35 That what gets me. Mr Aron is right: all that "happened" (according to that book) is within that region on earth!
The only reason creationists keep coming up with wild idiocy, using sciencey words, is to refute truth that education gives us.
Hearing these Professionally Produced Apologetic Programmes, leaves me astounded. In this day and age, I find it disturbing to note that people could possibly still believe this tripe. And yet they do. Very sad indeed. Thank goodness for Aron's responses. We all have our own little foibles that may seem odd to others, but come on, believing in a Mythological Flood is just plain daft. To my ears, they may as well be discussing who shot first in the wholly book of The Star Wars. It is just as pointless.
Aron.. you made me laugh so hard at 5:36 when you talked about that little circle. Thanks for bringing so much joy to my life. You are so awesome!!
After all these years of happily learning, I, a grown ass kitten, still first think xenobites whenever I read trilobites and I'm not apologizing :)
Aron kicks Butt yet Again! Apologists Surrender!!! To us!
Under your glass dome!
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I am absolutely loving this series.
LOL, I love that you finally aknowledged the irritating and smug tone of the narrator's voice. Great video, Aron!
I'm beginning to think Creationist use the word kind to piss off the Evolutionary Biologist. About all they have left
Another great video series Aron.
I'm taking notes as usual.
Damn well done, and I appreciate the guest speakers, too. Love what you do, Aron! ❤️ ❤️
"The Epic of Gil Gamesh. So, Mr. Gamesh, how did you deal with that flood?" LOL! I never heard anyone ever pronounce Gilgamesh like it was a first and last name!
Hahahaha...great!
Aron, I sincerely and truly appreciate just how thoroughly you go after these ignorance mills
I know I say it repeatedly, but it is meant with veracity and true respect, thank you so very much for what you have done, what you are doing, what you will do and will continue to do also
As well as who you are, you are sincere, genuine and a staunch adversary of lies and that is both relevant and necessary in today's sphere of available information
Your presentations, orations and rebuttals are remarkable, you say what is needed with little effort it seems, because you are so equipped for such tasks
You're simply a marvel in these times and we need people like you to fight back against such utter nonsense
"The animatronic teenager voice of Genesis Apologetics" 🤣
Aron, as much as I love the science, your having to continuously refute such creationist rubbish is beyond tiring. I am watching the decline of intelligence in the US ( with legislative changes and anti science) with increasing worry but do consider that often before a significant leap forward can happen in knowledge or culture, such pain is often present. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for your videos Aron, they’re great. I like Professor Dave’s videos too, he’s fun to listen to. We appreciate all of the time it takes to put these videos together.
8000000 mm rain within 40 days = around 6500 celsius.
I think that’s enough to cause most life on earth to go extinct all by itself
@@littleredpony6868 with god anything goes...
If god commands it friction can remove heat or the breath of god can remove it...
Point of these arguments is god why not used magic heart attacks... why god must destroy everything?
Aron Ra thank you 🙏 for your service to humanity, this information is indispensable for our progress, priceless work Aron!!!
It amazes me that these people think they know better than experts
I guess you could say Brown's theory holds no water.
You're a dad, aren't you. Because that was a dad joke.
@@AronRa Nope, not a dad. Hopefully will be one someday though.
God had a hard time as there was Noah capable of building such an ark!
@@ryanw531 He may not be a dad, but he has the heart and the jokes of one.
I really enjoyed this!, it's a pleasure to learn new stuff; please keep them coming
I hope that this is relevant. John R. Rice and Bob Jones, Sr. were popular southern fundamentalist evangelists during the period between the world wars. They were close friends and saw eye to eye on every theological point but one. That is, when God wrote the Bible did he do it by putting the words in the man's mind as he wrote, or did he forgo the mind and just moved the writer's hand? Their disagreement turned into a feud and the two men broke fellowship (as they say) for good, even though they lived to be very old men.
So, basically even the most fundamentalist of fundamentalists could not agree on the method of inspiration. Yes, that is the founder of Bob Jones University.
Just wanted to say I appreciate and look forward to your vids. I see now that some religious people lie to themselves and others unconsciously or not. I seek the truth and that's why I love science and intelligent reasoning. 👍
But . . . it is a disc!!! Held up by 4 elephants (Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen) who stand upon the shell of Great A'Tuin the turtle who swims throughout the cosmos. De Chelonian Mobile!
Man aronra is an amazing science communicator.
On the 'Death Pose', you left out the interpretation from L. Ron Hubbard, in his explanation that this is evidence of the events in OTIII, that it was nuclear blasts that knocked the dinosaurs heads back when they turned to see what all the noise was. ;-)
Shh! don't spill that secret, lest you be plagues with constant colds for life!! ;)
Keep up the good work, Aron 👍
Oh, now I understand - Noah and everyone & everything else lived on Pangea, penguins and pangolins, Pandas & Pumas, &c, &c, so now the whole Flood story is made believable and veridical. Thanks for clearing that up.
Has any creation scientist ever tried submerging a live tree for a month to see what happens?
I believe in the Great Pumpkin 🎃. 😶
I watch these videos to enjoy Aron destroy these fools but I always go away knowing more than I did before.
I didnt know America was riding on an old tectonic plate, that's fascinating
Carl Sagan would be proud of you.
Imagine how terrifying it would be if continents were moving and suddenly stopping the way YEC say it happened in the Bible.
Would we even survive long enough to feel terror?
There was a Far Side cartoon. Continental Drift Whiplash.
@@simongiles9749 I Love The Far Side,gonna have to find that panel.
The Flood would destroy the Ark
"No because God protected it"
So if God needed to use magic to do that, them why he dont use magic to just make all people disappear? For a supposed all powerful God, he sure dont use the most efficient way to do things.
Not only to protect the Ark. God would have needed so much Magic to make this all happen and resolve all the inconsistencies and plotholes, a literal Thanos-Snap would be "easier" and more believable
I am in awe at Aron's capacity for patience and unwavering desire to instruct.
Kangaroos, koalas and platypus on the Ark... In the Middle East..
Yeah, sure..
Aboriginals descended from Noah...
Yeah... Sure
Exactly how seaworthy could the Ark have been when, just recently, the Ark Experience had problems with flooding?
try read about the shooner wyoming the largest wooden ship
To be fair, the Ark Experience is just a boat-shaped facade on one side of a standard concrete and steel building. I remember hearing that they originally intended it as a full-scale model to prove that a literal reading of Genesis would result in a believable structure, but they had to abandon that plan when they found any building following that approach would be unfit for human habitation by Kansas Health and Safety Laws. Small wonder that their compromise only barely clears the bar and succumbs to some less than catastrophic Kansas weather.
Will the Ark Experience people conclude that God is reproving them for their hubris? No, of course they won't.
@@jimrodarmel8512 Kansas? I thought it was Kentucky.
@@alanthompson8515 You're probably right. I don't have the best name-remembering function, probably extends to state names too.
A real joy to hear your explanations.
When will aron shift to 1080p is one of biggest mysteries in the universe
It's striking how ignorant and ridiculous YEC can be.
It's crazier thinking I used to believe in adjacent ideologies.
Notice how they also don’t address the heat problem
18:42 "Isn't it adorable..."
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Sky daddy would have to use his magic for so many things concerning a global flood, creating the amount of water (and later vanish it again into space...), help Noah build a wooden boat impossible even by todays standards without any iron supports, make it seaworthy, teleporting every animal into the ark (shrinking them, too, to fit), put said animals into hibernation so they don't produce any waste or consume food, especially not consuming other animals, warp the whole earth during said flood to make every trace of it vanish, after that, making the flooded earth habitable again, bring back every pair of animals to their former place, take care of the genetic bottleneck this would create, take care of the enormous breeding speed a repopulation would need, treat the descendants of Noah the same way so they can fill the earth with humans again, bring most of them to every spot of every ancient civilization previously killed by the flood, wipe their memory so they don't remember they came from the middle east, but remember all the customs of said civilizations and rebuild their living environment as if no flood ever happened... AND THAT IS ONLY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE concerning the ark itself...
Outstanding! Thank you Aron and Co.
No one seems to wonder if all the people alive then, drowned with all of the dinosaurs, where are their skeletons? Not one has been found in any layer that contains dinosaur fossils. How do creationists explain this?
they dont. they dont even talk about it.
if they are asked about it they show "human footprint" over a trilobite fossil
The whole 'but it's not meant to be taken literally' excuse some Christians come up with is amusing, seeing as there's a hardcore large group of Christians who believe Genesis is literal history. Can't have it both ways.
And even if we do take Noah's Flood as just a story, why is the rest of Genesis any more factual? Why wouldn't it all be made up by some ancient fiction writer who had no idea about cosmology, meteorology, biology, geography, etc? He sat down one day and wrote a line about boom, god made the heavens and the Earth. Done! Brilliant writing there.
One then logically starts to wonder what other parts were written as basically god fan fiction, by men trying to assert their dominance over one another by declaring 'god told me I'm special, now hand over this land!'
The only large group of bible literalists is in the US.
My favorite one was that a friend of mine's wife's friend was giving me whole "you can't understand it unless you believe". So reading English is dependent on a god belief? She got really pissed when I started quoting the bible verses about women needing to shut up, not teach a man, and all that crap "they are your rules not mine".
I never understood how someone could have their god call them a piece of shit and still worship that god. The bible says that a woman (even your wife) is as low as your slave. I'm not cool with that, maybe if I was into BDSM I would be *lol*.
It ties in with your "it can't be taken literally" and in the same breath taking shit literally. The cognitive dissidence you need to go through to hold not just contradictory ideas but ones that create a mental paradox.
When you are in school, if you fail every test then you do not graduate. But when you are out of school you can make a good living by promoting theories that fail every test.
Verses in the bible only become "metaphors and symbolic" after science has thoroughly debunked them.
I think the most damning, ignorant statement of the genesis speaker was invoking evolution while talking about geology, demostrating a complete lack of understanding for both.
How come apologists claim a science book is lying whilst citing inadequately or incorrectly what a certain passage actually says? And how come they claim their holy book is telling the truth whilst citing inadequately or incorrectly what a certain passage actually says?
Genesis Apologetics - Thou shalt not bear false witness - shame on you - repent you naughty children
The ridiculousness of a mud trail to the rifts, would ALSO have to ignore the fact that erosional and transportation/depositional processes occur on the coasts of oceans. Hydraulic action, abrasion and corrasion, attrition and solution, constantly change the coastal deposits, sometimes even making them "initially" unrecognizable.
Genesis is about as real as Scooby Doo and the Gang....
And they woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids.
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I'm convinced the 'robotic teen voice' is a real human. The intonation and sporadic bursts of snarky superiority just sound too real to be text to speech.
Awesome!
Tony Reed also does a great video on how hydroplate theory fails.
Is that a recent video from him? I don’t remember that one and I thought I seen all of his videos. He hasn’t put any new ones out for ages and ages.
One thing you missed, the Bible isn't even 'a good piece of literature' 😂
Some of it is quite interesting, some is quite funny. Most of it to be fair is just bloody boring.
Is just run off the mill weak writing through and through, nothing new or novel, just recycled versions of other stories told better the first time 🤭
At this point, is hard to find anything that doesn't disproves a world wide flood.